THE CHINA
HONG KONG SHARE MARKET
To-day's Deals and Quotations
Stixk
Buyers
Sellem
Sala
Naca.
Paid up Value
Highest & Lowest 1928-29
Dividend
BANKS.
Itong Kong Bank .........
(Lon. Reg.)
1.355
$350
114
Chartered Bank .......................... Mercantile Bank, A. & B.
D.,
19
C.
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INSURANCES.
Caston Ins.
Unina Tas
3721%
North China las.....Th.
бо
Yangtze Ins.......M.$
Cluna Underwriters...
2%
China Fire Ins.
310
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Messrs. KOMOR & KOMOR'S
AUTUMN
EXHIBITION
of
Water Colours and Oil Paintings
-
PICTURES
by the foremost Artista of Japan will be
open on OCTOBER 31st
FOR
10 DAYS ONLY
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Prices ranging from 2 Dollars upwards. The most suitable Wedding or Xmas
Presents.
KOMOR & KOMOR,
Art & Curio Experts, St. George's Building.
Bank of East Asia
1. K. Fire los.
SHIPPING.
Doug!Bes....
H. K. Steamboats Indo-Chinas (Pret.)
(Del.).....
Shell Transporte......... Union Waterboat
Benguets
Kailan Mining Ad....
Langkau (Comb.) ....Th.
(Single) .Th.
S'hai Explorations
Raulit
Tronoh Mine 21-
DOCKS, WHARVES,
GODOWNS, &c.
STAR THEATRE
5 DAYS ONLY - 5 Commencing MONDAY, Nov.
THE SHOW OF SHOWS
RUTH
VAN
VALEY
REVUE
MINING.
+1
...
4.65
57/6
...li.
......
..Th
4th
H. K. & K. Wharves ...$
#4772
H. K. & W. Docks ......
China Provideats ....
5.63
Honzkews
T1.
N. Engineerings
..TN.
Shanghai Docks
.Th.
COTTON MILLS.
..........Th.
17%
(new) ...Th.
Zeong Sings
.Tx.
& BUILDINGS.
A
REVUSICAL, MUSICAL, MAGICAL SHOW
NOTE:-MISS RUTH VAN VALEY WILL POSITIVELY APPEAR
Booking At Moutrie's and Star.
Prices: $3, $2, $1.
Ewo Celton?
S'hai Cottons (old) ...Th.
LANDS, HOTELS
H, & S, Hotels
H. K. Lands
H. K. Realien
Shanghai Lands
Humphreys
Chinese Estates
PUBLIC UTILITIES.
H. K. Tramwaya
Teak Trams (old
(new)
་
Star Ferries Ch. Lights (old) (new)
H. Electrics Macao
Sandakan Fights Telephones
14.80
66
160
19.30
!!!
&
#
&
$125
وجود
1385-4150
Á Int.
1979
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26.55-19.6.3
lot:
$12.10
14--30
Inc.
1929
154-134
5% Inc.
$too
108 67
1929 1913
.
10.10
720 590 $390197 1100-130
50~13
3.50 -1.75
310-304 B:5-662%
43-74
1928
1538
1937.
M.$3.99
1938
18
1938
43
1927
1934
30-13
1938
$5235-30
#925
85#.
53
1919
45-17
1.50
1938
وتور
$1.65-1
0.15
1919
21. Lat.
Gr. 10
18-9
214
To.50
**
$5
4.10---1-40 8.75-44
60-31
1927
T.75 1926 25. 6d. 43% d.
1929 1929
1.43%-120 485---723%
1928
4
1924
6.40-3.90
1-19
1924
$:90-125
T3 Inc.
TS
T75
8.50-4.50 145-89
0.40
74
1929 1928 1929
SAMLE
33.ly
104-45 76-211
T10
13-5
FEGE
*
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(920
1929
1926
1924
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وهوا
Sca
1,20
a Int.
T3 Inc.
15--13
1918
15.10
510
9.39-74
9.30
0.30 Int.
1929
1928
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741-59
ودوه
17/%
19
17-18 24-11.80
4.50 Int.
1929
6.45
9-6.05
10%
1929
1928
05.
$5
15.50-9 15.10--4,57
Int.
1929
5% In
бола
$10
67% -47%
2.50
1939 Iga8
ay
$1.50
8.30-3.98
1919
12.11.
61. 6d.
5%
1928
CM.
13.60-0-50 3--17
In
liquidation
3
1918
2%
44-14
Cements (comb)
12.65---7.70
0.90
1925
(old) (new)
9.60
$10-64
o,Bo
1925
2.50-0.Bo
0.10
1925
H. K. Ropes
17.00-6
1.25
*1914*
United Asbestos
STORES, &c.
12,00
12/
1.05
G. FALCONER & CO., (HONG KONG) LTD
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1
DIAMOND MERCHANTS.
1
Union Building (Opposite
G.P.O.)
Agents for: ADMIRALTY CHARTS,
ROSS'S BINOCULARS and TELESCOPES,
KELVIN'S NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS,
ENGLISH SILVERWARE, direct from Manufacturers.
High Class English Jewellery.
EXCHANGES
TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS
On London--
Bank, wire
China Duses S'pore Tractions
Ts. 536 ....Picí. 201
INDUSTRIALS.
China Sugars
Malabon Sugars Cald: Macg. Ord. ...
Canton Iurs
Dairy Farmi Watsons
Pref,
Der A Wings Lane Crawfords Mackintoshs.....
Sinceres ...... Win. Powells"
MISCELLANEOUS.
H. K. Amusements .....$
H. K. Gavi, Loana ......
On Manila-re
On demand
*84%
H
On Shanghai-
H. K. "Constructions ....$
On demand........ 77%
1.30
B. Ind. G. Boads
30 day's sight (private
6% Prem.
paper) ...
1/8 %
On Yokohama
Bank, on demand... 1/8 13/15
On demand
87
Bank, 30 days' sight
Gold Leaf, 100 fine
Bank, 4 months' aight 1/9
(per tael)
Credits, 4 months'
Sovereigna
(Bank's
Milan Berlin
93.125 20.385
sight
1/9 3⁄44
buying rate)
11.10
Stockholm
18.165
Documentary 4 months'
Silver (per oz.)
22%
Copenhagen
18.205
aight
On Parla
On demand
1/9 %
1072
Bar Silver In Hong
Oslo
18.205
Kong
Par.
Credits, 4 months'
Copper, Cash
Nominal
Copper Cents
3% prem.
aight
11472
Rate of Native Inter-
On Berlin-
est
7% Pr
Vienna Prague Helsingfors Madrid Lisbon
34.695
164%
194
34.21
108.25
On demand
Chinese Sub. Coin
22% dia.
Athens
375
On New York-
On demand
42%
Credits, 60 days' aight 44
On Bombay.
Hong Kong Sub, Coln Paz.
LONDON EXCHANGES
Bucharest Rio
816
5%
Buenos Aires
46%
Bombay
Wire
116
On demand
116
London, Yesterday,
1/5 13/16 2/2/
On Calcutta--
Paris.
123.81
Hong Kong
Wire
1161⁄4
Now York
4.87 (27/82
On demand
1161⁄4
Brussels
34.865
On Singapore...
Geneva
.28.175
On demand
744
Amsterdam
12.093%
Shanghai
Yokohama
Silver Spot Silver Forward
1/11 21/32 1/8 %
227%
23 1/16
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#
57%
2334-1534 15-11
1.25
1928
0.80
1928
0.30
1926
2
fga8
12~~7.75
10%
1923
5%-14
0.23
1929
B12
30
3x
31-18
7-30~-1/4
3.30
1949
1.50 -
1929
CRUEL GOSSIP
The mallelous gossip, like the anonymous letter-writer, is a dan- ger to society.
In a case at Llanbrynmair, a needless Inquiry into the cause of death of a local farmer subjected hia widow to a humillating and ter- rible.ordeal.
How many lives have been wreck ed by gossip.
The scandal-monger suffers from a form of egotism which finds ex- pression in maligning even his friends.
The story of poison and Infidelity In this Welsh Inquest was com- pletely disproved, but who can gauge the depth of distress and pain suffered by the widow in this public examination?
"THE GAMBLERS"
."If
other you gamble with people's money and lose, you're a crook; if you win, it's high finance," This seems to be the theme in the now talkie, "The Gamblers," at the Piccadilly in London.
The story concerns the directors
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1929.
STRANGE GHOST
STORIES FROM HOLY CROSS PRIORY
"PRAY FOR ME"
PERSONALITY
JOD OF INDIVIDUAL TO CULTIVATE IT
CAN IT BE ACQUIRED?
The strange case of the ghost of
It is an important question, Holy Cross Priory in Leicester City since there is a widespread feeling stands out to me at last-like that personality counts. AR mountain peak above a mist, saya Miss Tallulah Bankhead said the the Rev. D. Morse-Boycott in the other day. "The public demands "Dally Express."
porsonality, and it is my job to cultivate it."
Most ghost stories leave you doubting even when sympathetic.
The Americans are wiser than we But here is an apparition, treading are is this respect. They believe its old haunts, seen by a number in the thing: hence they associate of monks and lay folk on different psychological training with physi- occasions, speaking to the prior atcal. They specialise in personality. the altar: "Pray for me. I need with the result that in tennis, your prayers and the prayers of my golf, on the stage and in business people"; and being testified to in a they lead where others follow.
restrained manner.
That personality can be acquired And just in case there should be is surely implied in all real educs- people ungenerous enough to sugtion, as in all our attempts at self- gest that the priory, by making Improvement. Dr. Smiles 19 not as public its disturbing experience, out of date as we imagine, since seeks some gain, let us note that it is not too much to say that much here is no story of the apparition of the glory of the later Victorian of any saint, such as would excite age was the result of the simple pilgrimage.
belief that self-improvement and the habit of taking pains pay,
Personality is a quality which is distinctive and peculiar. It is a vain quest, therefore, unless wa proceed along the lines of our own distinctive make-up. "I am not like anyone else I have ever
known," said Rousseau; "yet, if I am not better, at least, I am different."
Most people know the amazing story of Lourdes. Sister Therese of Lisleux, a young nan who died in 1897, has been seen time and again. The strangest appearance was to a colonel in the British Army, who woke up one night to find a nun by his bedside. She told him that the war was a punishment, but that England and France would win.
The Man Who Is "Different" Then she vanished. He was so in- It is because we so often forget digannt that he went to a convent this that there are so many round near by, and bade the amazed su-pegs in square holes, and that perior parade the nuns before him. failure is written on so many lives. He was taken into a room where the
Few would deny that, during that picture of a young nun hung on memorable international debate on the wall. "That's she!" he said to Reparations recently held at The the mother superior who replied: Hague, we had the right man in "Ah!" she died long before I came the right place, a man who was to this convent, M. le General.”
"different," and who, having many. Again, I am reminded of the ex-dominating qualities, had courage perience of a Protestant who was above all. Rarely has the world present at the opening of Brompton seen a finer example of the conquer- Oratory. He noticed a strange old ing might of personality.
man who, during the ceremony, Personality has many facets, looked down from 2 deserted Not least attractive is that of gallery. On being shown over charm. Some hold that charm is the Oratory he
astounded
largely a matter of temperament, to see the old man's portrait. It and there the matter ends. We are
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was that of St. Philip Neri, the founder of the Oratorians, who died in the seventeenth century. (I had this story from an Oratorian.)
liked or we are not, it is said: we
are good mixers or we are not.
We Can Please and Attract;
No! Temperament can be modif.
At a seancer discarnate spirited. The doctrine of betterment im.
is said to materialise by means of pliss so much. We can please and the medium's ectoplasm, substance that exudes from him in
* attract, if we so desire, and, where nature is lacking, art is at our dis- posal.
trance. The spirit "clothes him- self" with this. Now the Leicester case is one of a spirit appearance in old guise without any medium to help him, and addressing some one direct.
Many a popular public speaker owes more, to art than you might think, as many a charming wom owes something to the art of con- cealing arts which are commonly
We know that dying people ap-neglected. pear to friends far away. I remem-
No one need be a slug. The mind ber my mother telling me how she
can be turned up to concert pitch, once saw the family coachman walk
so that a man can make his life through a room when he was dying pretty much what he chooses, if he a hundred miles away. We are not has faith and a measure of courage. wise enough to know how it hap It is that wretched inferiority com- pens. To deny that it does happen plex which is the bane of so many is sheer obstinate presumption.
lives. To believe in oneself, and And what may occur when folk to do what he can to full himself, are dying (with their thoughts rov-it is this which lies at the root ing to distant friends) can surely of a commanding and attractive happen when they have gone penionality, says W. Charles Loos. over." The good Christian will add more In "Daily Chronicle."
"If God: permit,” ad reverently suppose that there are laws of the supernatural that enable a discar- nate spirit to appear to human eyes In the old form, in warning, sup- |plication or rebuke.
Making the Best of Oneself Ultimately, however, personality implies character, the functioning of the whole man or woman. It is not a mere coddling of one's little ogo, not a kind of surface flare, or
It is conceivable that the very superficial polish____It___lv__self___ penitence of a spirit for some dark expression, the natural flowering of deed done, dimming his vision of one's inner self...
God, may, by its intensity, cause it If I were asked along what lines to take advantage of those super-one should proceed in order to make natural possibilities and make. it the best and the most of himself, "walk" the old scenes.
among other things, I would say;
Are?
Love may do this too. Why not? Be yourself and don't pose. Bellevé Was not Cardinal Newman found in yourself and never say die. weeping at Littlemore twenty years Cultivate your mind and think for after he left it? Old association yourself. Remember that there is drove him there. Do not you and a time to let yourself go, and a time not to do so. Be interested haunt old scenes with minds a
in people and things keeping your. eyes open and your ears alert.
If to these you add a sense of humour, a generous heart, and a quiet mind, you are not far from the self-fulfilment, and a measure of personality is already yours.
There is another conceivable ex- planation. Some places have "at- mosphere." I know a room where I always feel lifted up by an indefin-
of a great New York bank, who able holy atmosphere. Some one borrow five million dollars from the very good ilved there, and the sur- bauk for speculating with, and loseroundings were "tinged."
it.
The Belge Neonlite Company have just made a contract to Neonize the tower of the Great World at the corner of Avenue Edward VII and Thibat Road. This will be one of the largest Neon Light projects in Shanghal and will neccaaltate using about 500 ft. of Neon Light tubes.
Contrariwise, I have been in places where evil seemed pregnant. May not a man live ao intensely parted person. concentrated suffi- In his surroundings that they be-alently at a given moment, may re- come so soaked with his personality produce the "sound of his being" that, after he is gone, they repro- from his former environment.
This is a great mystery, But it duce, on given occasions, bis form?
The gramophone xeedle brings is not against the Christian re- out the sound in the wax. Perhaps ligion. And it has nothing to do the thoughts of many for the de- with spiritualiam.
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